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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Karl and Glen write,


> > > If there were a distributed mechanism in place (think Tor),
> > > these problems would go away. I don't know what that mechanism
> > > is - but it's the answer :-)
> >
> > The problem with distributed mechanisms is that you don't know who
> > owns them. It's simple enough to NSA to own enough of them to have a
> > high probability of collecting the metadata it desires.
> 
> It's statistics - there are few major carriers, so corrupting one gets
> the bad guys (yes, I mean the NSA - is there any better description?)
> heaps and heaps of data. Spread stuff around, and it becomes
> statistically far less likely that any particular communication involves
> a corrupted node. 


As much as I hope you are right Karl ... here's a map showing that by 2012
the NSA has placed 50,000 High-Speed Optical Cable access points worldwide

<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/report-nsa-planted-malware-
spans-five-continents-50000-computer-networks/>

Cheers,
Stephen


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